Fashion show pictures

Wow, it was an amazing fashion show yesterday. :) I love to see what other students have made! And now I'm really looking forward to restart on monday! YAY!
I've taken a lot of pictures, and they're all here on my facebook profile:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=265704&id=590016081&l=6e9691f10c
(it's a public link)
 Here's a few of my favorites:

Beautiful corset!

A cute little dress. :)

Another cute dress/blouse.

Awesome shirt!

Beautiful gown! I really like the detail on the skirt.

These people are so creative, it's amazing! :D I hope to create beautiful things as well.
Just thought I'd share some pics, since I mentioned that I'd go to the show yesterday. ;P
I am learning to take pictures more often now, weee. :D
Have a nice thursday evening.

I want to start running...

I got myself up this morning at around 8 o'clock - which is über-early for me, at the time being, and I thought I'd go for a run.
I went outside, started running, and it went fairly well, until 10 minutes atfer... I got nauseated and dizzy, and felt really really fatigued... So I just walked home, and slept a bit more.
Which kind of sucked, because I've gained weight - like 5 kg the last couple of months, so I thought I'd try to get them off again. But that was perhaps just a bad start.
What is a good way to start running, I wonder?
I'm pretty sure I shouldn't run in the morning now, in -4 degrees Celsius...
But, I'll just try again later. :D
Now I'm off for a fashion show! wee

Have a nice day!

Advertising at BeMyGoth.com

I'm so excited!
Today me and Bjarke got an email from some manicpanic (gothic makeup) people, saying that they want to advertise on bemygoth.com!
It is an awesome feeling that our page is getting so great a response from people. Yay! Motivation!
I just thought I'd share it. :D
Happy happy monday!

ps. I'll just write an update later, when we are certain if they still want to advertise, when we've given them our price and all. :D

Creativity Day

I've had a really nice weekend, with friends comin over, and we were being creative.
One of my friends made a book-clock, inspired by the 'ruffles and stuff'-blog. Here's a link for the book-clock: http://www.rufflesandstuff.com/2009/11/time-for-good-book.html.
It really awesome!
I made a purse, or shoulder bag for my friend, and I'm realy kind of proud of it. :)

It took some time making it, and some cuts by pins.... still got band-aid on my left index finger... *sigh*
Here you can see my friend drying off the nail polish on the clock hands of her new clock.

The book in the front is the one to become her book-clock. :D It's awesome!
It's so wonderful that you can surf around on the internet and get inspired by people's creativity! I love the internet. :)
Now I'm off to bake a cake. :D
Did you have a nice weekend?

Printing on fabric with stencils

Wee, I've learned about stencil printing on fabric, and it's AWESOME!!!! :D
I've made two pillow covers now and I'm planning on making at least another 7! Because we have a sofa with 9 pillows in the same awful red color (the one in the picture below), so I'm redecorating. Weee! It makes me really happy.
Here are the two pillow covers I've made:

Aren't they neat?
I really enjoy printing on fabric! It's really a nice and easy process. It's really easy to get really good results! :D
We also printed the cat onto one of Bjarkes t-shirts, and I think it's really cool!

I found the cat pattern while searching google for stencils. Here's a link:
http://www.halloweenpumpkins.be/img/patterns/pattern37.jpg
Then I cut it out on a plastic pocket piece, and transferred it onto the fabric. We're doing a proper tutorial on it at BeMyGoth.com soon. :)
Do you have any experience with stencilling on fabric?

Yay, Productivity!

I finally got something done.
I made our new toilep paper holder, and I made it to a tutorial at bemygoth.com. :)
It feels really good to get something done.
It seems I'm getting back on track. wee!
Here's a pic of our new toilet paper holder:

It helps a lot that I made it, cause our toilet paper was just lying around on the floor in the less than pretty plastic bag it comes in. So YAY! We're more organized now.
Have a nice weekend. :)

Wow, it's been a while

Can't believe that time flies so fast!
I'm soon starting at my school again (31st of January), and I'm really looking forward to it! :)
It seems to me, that when I was on a leave from school, time went a million times faster than it should, I couldn't seem to relax or just do nothing. I've been doing things practically every day since last summer.
Although now, after New Year's Eve, I haven't.. hehe... But I think it's because I've been sick, and just haven't had the energy. Today, I got up though, and cleaned up some of my mess in the apartment. That was actually rather nice! :)

I feel like I'm planning what to do all the time, but it's rare that I get the things done, especially considering BeMyGoth.com and this blog. It actually bothers me, so I should just do something about it....

Sorry - I'm rambling a bit - I need to start writing again somehow. :D

Uuh, wedding dress!

Wow - we found the fabric for my friend's wedding dress, and I'm so excited about making it!!! :) I can't really post any pictures yet, though..............

BUT I'M EXCITED! ;P Yay! I think it's going to be pretty!

I've just got a new auto-responder thing for Bemygoth.com ,and thought I'd put a 'sign-up-for-my-newsletter' here as well. Then I can send newsletters! fancy that.

Well, I'm considering what I can do with this blog, and I'm considering buying a domain for it, but I think I'll wait... I'll wait and see if it catches on. ;P


I haven't really been taking pictures or prepared for a post entry today, but I thought I'd write, to get my self started again. I've been quite busy with other stuff lately. But now, I'll stop living, and start blogging! he...
Just kidding. ;P

Anyhoo... that's it for now - it's time for bed.

Goodnight, fellow humans!

Ruffles and Stuff

I've been surfing crafty blogs today, and came upon a whole ebook, ready to read, full of tutorials and project you can make. It's called 'Celebrating Moms', and since it was 'embed'able, I thought I'd just share it. It's really nice and inspirational!

Celebrating MOM

It comes from http://www.rufflesandstuff.com by the way. ;P

Things I've Made Lately

I just finished a huuuuuge shawl, which I'm never going to use out side, because it's more like a blanket than a shawl.. ;P It took some time to make, but it was nice.
I followed a crochet recipe, but I didn't use the same yarn or needle, and therefore it became a million times bigger than it should have been. I think it's about 3 meters wide and 2 meters tall... IT' S HUUGE!!!!!!!!!

I hung it on some hooks we had in our ceiling, and it fills the whole room. hehe..

And then afterwards, I knitted a hat - also from a recipe, but I actually followed the measurement now..... But the hat is too small! *sigh* I really really liked the pattern (it's from a book called 'Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders), and I might consider trying to make it again, but somewhat bigger. It looks like a hat for a small girl, really... Well, see for yourself:

It won't really do me any good in the winter.... *sighs again*.... Well, I'll just knit some more. And I like knitting, so everything's fine.

Decorated Mousepad

I just made something that my boyfriend absolutely despises. hihihi... ;P
But I find it cute and funny.
It's a decorated mousepad. Well - the mousepad existed, I just decorated it with fabric, lace and ribbon.

It works really fine. :)
The mousepad I had was round. I just used it as a pattern to cut out the fabric of my choice. The I used a glue stick to glue it on. (I thought it would be the easiest, and less bumpy). But I'm not sure it'll last forever. We'll see - it works for now.

The I ruffled some lace with my Pfaff ruffler foot. And glued it on the edge with a glue gun.
Then I ironed the satin ribbon into shape, so it wouldn't curl all over the place. (I actually didn't think it was possible, but satin ribbon is quite flexible, when you iron it. yay). I glues that on too with a glue gun, and lastly I made a rose, and glued it on too.

It was very easy to make. So now I have my very own girly girly mousepad. :)

Healthy Buns - The Ones You Eat

I really like bread with a lot of grain, because it tastes better than just white bread, and it's a lot healthier and it'll keep you full for a longer time. :)
I have modified a bun recipe, and both me and Bjarke have grown quite fond of these buns. We eat them in the morning and as lunch with any kind of spread you like. :)

Here's the recipe:

16 healthy buns

Make the dough before you go to bed, because it's supposed to raise for approximately 8 hours.

You'll need:

• 100 g 5-grain mix. (contains: split wheat grains, split rye grains, shelled sesame seeds, linseed and sunflower seeds)
• 100 g split wheat grains
• 200 g graham flour
• 200 g durum flour
• 300 g wheat flour 
• 7,5 dl cold water
• 35 g yeast
• a teasp. salt

 Mix the flours and grain together with salt and yeast in a big bowl with a hand mixer. Mix the water in and mix for 5 minutes. It should be quite sticky and wet but not liquid.
Cover the bowl with cellophane and put it in the refrigerator. Let it stay the night. :)

In the morning, turn on the oven on 275 degrees Celcius, take another smaller bowl, and fill it with nice tepid water, and take out the bowl of dough from the fridge. Now make 16 buns by dipping your hands in the water and grab a portion of the dough and making it round. :) Repeat.

Wait till the oven is ready and put in the buns. Roast for 8 minutes, and turn the oven down to 225 degrees Celcius, and bake for another 15 minutes.

I have a fan oven, but I think a regular oven will do just as well. :)

Well, now they're done, and you can go ahead and eat healthy for a couple of days. You can put them in the freezer as well, as long as you warm them in the oven afterwards.

Some sleep improvement

I've been sleeping an awful lot lately, and I seem to take it a bit too seriously.. sort of.. I mean, I don't have to get up at any time, other than my own specified 'I want to get up now'-time, so I don't understand why I am being so fuzzy at night about bed time.
I might be a bit concerned about Bjarke, because he has to go to school at 8.25 every day, and that might be why I get tired early. I get up about 10 or 11 am, so I needn't to go to bed too early. *sigh*
So after some lurking on facebook, I ran into a random comment about sleep, and someone had posted a link to an article about becoming an early riser in Steve Pavlina's blog in response. I red it and became very inspired to try and become one. Well, I've only just read the post today, so I'll have to start trying from tomorrow.
So I'm basically just going to go to bed when I'm tired, and then get up every morning, say, around 6 o'clock.
It seems pretty unnatural, because I've always been a "night raven", and I always get creative during the late hours. So it'll definitely be a challenge for me.
I sent the article to Bjarke, and he read it enthusiastically, and went on reading about 'polyphasic sleeping', and he's going to try that out. If he succeeds and keeps being healthy and stuff, I might try it out as well. :)
The 'polyphasic sleeping' is about only having to sleep 2-3 hours every 24 hours, spread out on 6-7 naps every 3-4 hours. And each nap shouldn't be more than 30 minutes.
Steve Pavlina has had some pretty amazing results, and I must admit it is tempting to try. But I think I'll do some disciplinary foot-work first by learning to get up every morning at a specific time. Then I might consider the other. :) Because I find it really really intriguing that you have like 21-22 hours every day you can use, rather than just my normal 14-15 hours or so (I sleep much). And I always complain about how little time we have...
I'm starting to convince myself to try it.... but I think I'll just stick with the early riser-thing for now. :) I'll wait and see how Bjarke holds up. He's taking a nap right now.

Creative Weekend, New Chairs and Homemade Ice Cream

I've been wanting to write many times, and put a lot of pictures lately, but I'm in the process of cleaning up my pictures, so I haven't really transferred pictures from my camera to my computer for a while. Now that is to change, though. :)

I've been wanting to show you a picture of what 4 girls and a guy have accomplished in one weekend. We have been really creative and productive! ;P

I helped a new friend of mine with some sewing. She hadn't really sewn before, and went home quite happy. Yay! It has been my most productive and creative weekend ever! And I was exhausted afterwards, but in a nice way. :) I think you really, like, squeeze the creative juices out of your brain along with your energy after such a weekend.

And we've gotten new chairs today, so I can sit here all the time now without hurting my back too much (and my bum.... ).
Here's what we had before:

Bjarke had had them for over 7 years or something.... *sigh*
So here's the new arrivals... iiih

They look really promising! :) mmm.
And:

TADAAA!!!!!!!!! This is what we sit in now! aaaahhh! It's really comfy. Now I have to convince myself to go to bed, just because I don't want to leave this chair. ;P

And just to brag a bit... I've made my first homemade ice cream today, an I must admit it's YUMMY! It's really delicious! Made out of Greek yoghurt, blueberries, strawberries, a lemon, powdered sugar and some chocolate. MMMM!

It tastes like a really tasty sorbet ice... mmmm!!! :)
Well, just wanted to share a little. Have to go to bed really. Need to share more good recipes, I think. :)

But for now goodnight - have to go to work tomorrow.

Uuh, new eyelashes!

I have just been a naughty girl an bought 50 pairs of fake eyelashes via alibaba.com! Wow! :) I paid $10,31, which only could get me 1 pair here in Denmark, so I'm quite thrilled. Now they should arrive in 7 to 20 days, so I'll be waiting with anticipation! Yay!

Here's a snapshot I took from the website:

Now I won't have to be all careful with them. :) I'm so happy!

Blueberry And White Chocolate Muffins

I went to visit a friend of mine for the first time today. It was rather nice. :)
We watched 4 episodes of 'WitchBlade', surfed a bit on the internet, and played around with photoshop. It was a really nice visit.
When I got home, I made muffins. Sort of secretly, because I only wanted Bjarke to see them after they were finished. It was blueberry and white chocolate muffins - inspired by our (now unfortunately discontinued) favourite chocolate... white chocolate with blueberries... mmmm!!!
And I took a picture of my creation (still learning to take pictures of everything... ;P)

They sort of look like rye bread on the outside, but I think it might have to do with the blueberry juice... :) They were really really tasty, yum!
Bjarke ate two, and he's blaming me for his sugar rush... hehe... I'm glad he likes them. ;P

Nail Polish

I just painted my nails......
I woke up around 5.30 am, lay in bed, tried to sleep some more, but couldn't, so I got up around 6 o'clock, and started doing my hair, make-up, and I painted my nails. :)
I'm going to work at 9.00, so I felt I had good time - I even had time to take pictures of my nails, and post a little blog post here - yay. :)

I must admit I have become very fascinated by VioletLeBeaux homepage, and the things she does. So I'm trying out a lot of things in her tutorials - such as nail for example. Se had a lot of pictures of 'transitional nail polishing', and I tried it - I just covered it with glitter afterwards. I think it's cool.

Ta-daa! :)

Getting On With My Blogspace

I just wanted to add a picture of my new 'inspiration board'. Also inspired from VioletLeBeaux.com. Although made a bit 'darker' in style. ;P

I've printed our pictures of things I want in the future, so that I can maintain focus when I am about to lose my way. ;P
I think it's really pretty. I'll make another one for my sewing space, I think - I just need to buy a cork board, because this one is just wood covered with fabric, so you can't pin anything on it.

I am truly enjoying making everything prettier. Yay! It makes me happy.

Creating A Blogspace

I know I said that I would wait till I could get some before and after pictures, but I just wanted to show you what I've done for now.. he, can't wait. ;P
I have a mini table for my computer screen, and it's really not pretty, so I put some fabric on..
Here it is as it was:

And here it is as it is now:

I'd say it's a lot prettier now. :)

Here's a picture of my 'blogspace' as it was:

As you can see it's not that inspiring, so I thought it would help with some decorating. And it's helping already, although I'm not finished.
I'm going to do some more decorating today. It's going to be prettyyyy.  Yay

Shirt Inspired By Knitted Neckwarmer

A couple of weeks ago I knitted a neckwarmer (I know it's not really season yet, but I just needed a small project, that I could finish pretty quickly). The pattern came from an Etsy Shop - Although it was free. :) The link is:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/18297293/pif-victorian-neckwarmer-knitting
And I really really liked the outcome! :) And that neckwarmer was the first piece of knitting I ever blocked, and the effect was amazing! :) I'm definitely blocking when I can!
I used my iron with steam and it worked really well.

Here's a picture of it.

I'm using it this winter - it's so pretty! :)

I really liked the button part, which I decided should be at the side, and I laid awake one early early morning and thought of a design for a shirt - I only knew that it should have buttons at the neck like this neckwarmer. But unfortunately I have a pretty... um... big chest, and turtlenecks don't look good on me. So I figured that I could make a faux neckline, and still get a tutleneck shirt with buttons and all. Yay, And here's what came to be:

I think I'll be wearing that shirt alot. :)

I've been working with my 'blogspace' as Violet from VioletLeBeaux.com calls it. I've put fabric around the mini table that my screen rests on, and made a note board'ish thing with fabric, lace and plastic gems. It's really pretty ;P
I've just been doing TONS of stuff today, so it's pretty late now - just thought I'd start sharing. I've been taking a lot of pictures of my new creations that I'd like to show you, but I think I'll wit till I finish my blogspace, so I can show some 'Before/After' pictures. Yay.. It nice getting things done! And I haven't cried today - which is a good thing I suppose.

Uuh, I also finished a skirt today. :) And made cookies... and cleaned the house, and washed the dishes. :) Yes, I've been a busy bee. Aah, I can sleep soundly in a couple of minutes... mmm :)

Goodnight for now - I'll be back tomorrow.